Gestational age is calculated, medically, based off the woman's last menstrual period. The only thing I see here is an attempt to try to make law and health care cross over. It's just another anti-abortion bill.

The title of the article is clearly meant to be sensational and you fell for it. Shame on the journalist and the news source. I'm not necessarily in agreement with the law but I really get irritated when journalists pull shit like this.

Your thread title and your reaction makes me think otherwise. I'm not in-line with a straight-up total ban on abortion after 20 weeks, but the pro-choice reaction in this article is full of straw man and slippery slope arguments.

This is no different from any other anti-abortion bill, except pro-choice supporters are using an extreme argument that is actually completely nonsensical. The only reason a fetus *might* (since the exact time of conception is pretty much impossible to know) be 2 weeks older than it actually is is purely for medical consideration, and not so people can do some kind of conspiratory preemptive measure to eliminate birth control everywhere, which is the precise reaction this article is trying to elicit.

This is a really crappy article with the way it is written and it gets on my nerves. I dunno, big pet peeve of mine.

I agree with Hathen. I'm someone in the pro-choice camp (but believe it should be measured on a case-by-case basis), and articles written like this sensationally in order to piss people off with half-truths and misinformation do not help anyone's cause. Sensationalism is the worst when it's about politics.